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Oh! greenly and lair in the landa of the tun The vinos ot the gourd and the rioh melon' run, And the rock and the tree and the cottage enfold, With broad leaves all greenness and blossoms all gold. Like that whioli o'er Niuevah'e prophet once grew While he wnitcd to know that hia warning was true, And longed tor the 8 to mi oloud, and listened in rain For the rush ot the whirlwind and rd Are ol rain. On the banks of Xerid the dark Spanish maiden Comes up with the fruit of the tangled Tine bid en ; And the Creole ol Cuba laughs out to behold Through orange leaves shining the broad spheres of gold; Tot with dearer delight, trom his home in the North, dn the fields ol his harvest the Yankee looks lorth. Where ciooknecka are coiling and yellow fruit shines And the sun of September melts down on his feu-', vinos. Ah! on Thanksgiving day, when from east and from west, From north and from south, come the pilgrim and guest; t When the gray-hawed New Englander sees round his Lonrd The old broken links ol affection restored; When the cure-wearied niau seeks his mother oaoo more, And he worn niutron smibs k here the girl smiled before; Wlmt moisten the lip and wliat brightens the eye, What cull buck the al like rich pumpkin pie? Uli! liuit loved ot boyhoood! the old days rei ailing', When the wood grapes were purpling, and hiM n liiils were lulling; When wild, ugly tHces we carved in its skin, (j luring out throi'gh the daik, with a candle within; When we laughed round the corn hesp, with hoiiris all in tune, Our chnir a broad pumpkin, onr lantern the moon, - ' - -Telling tales of the fairy who traveled like steam In a pumpkin shell coach, with two rats for a team. Then thanks lor thy present! None sweeter or better E'er smoked from an oven or circled a platter. Fair hands never wrought at pastry more tine, Brighter eyes never watched o'er its baking than thine; And the prayer which my mouth is too lull to express Swells my heart that thy shadow may never grow less; That the days ol thy lot may be lengthened below 1 And the lumo ol thy worth like the pumpkin vine grow; And thy life be as sweet, and its hurt sunset sky Golden tinted and fitir ns thy own pumpkin pie! John (i. H'k-UUi. km T POLLY'S STOftY. Mary Sanderson, city born and bred, .was on a visit to her mother's aunt, Mrs. Polly Perkins. Ono day she. entered the house, Iter cheeks all aglow. "I met Mr. Tracy and his mother out riding, auntie. What a sweet face she has, and how fond and proud her son is tglier!" Aunt Polly was making pies. " So he orter he," she said, cutting deftly the superfluous crust from the ' one she had just covered, the rings of dough falling over the plump bare arm. "There ain't many sich mothers; what she underwent fur him can't he told in words." " She inquired after you, Aunt Polly. She said you were once the best and only friend she had." Polly smiled, as she glanced up from the apples she was slicing. " It's true as Gospel, child, though there wouldn't nobody think it to look at her now. Conrted an' sought &Hcx as she is now, the time was when eery heart and door in Barberry Green was closed ng'm her but your Aunt Polly's. An' she ain't forgot it, nuther. Grand as she is, an' high as she might carry her head if the was a mind tew, she ain't forgot how I stood by her through all her troubles. She give me the black silk gown. I wear Sundays, an' the lace cap an' kerchief you was admiriu', an' that easy-chair in thesqunre room, an' the carpet an' pic turs. There's scarcely a week passes but what she sends me suthin'or ruther, if 'tain't more than Borne fruit or flow-rs." "Tell me all about it, auntie," said Mary, coax nil) ly; "Iknow it must be interesting. Do, and I'll help you to make the pies. I can pare ana slice apples." Polly looked rather dubiously at Mary's white dress. " If you are goin' tew dew that, dear, you'd better put on one of my aprons, so as not tew soil your gown." Enveloped in one of Polly's gingham aprons, which nearly hid her from view, Alary took the pan of apples and a low seat by the tab at which the former stood, rolling-pin in hand. "Now begin, auntu-," she 6aid."at bo very beginning, mind, when you i st knew her." " If I dew that, I'll have tew go back tew when we was girls, an' used tew go iew me oeesinci bciiooi togetner." " Jenny Locke was the darter of Tom Locke, the blacksmith, a big, brawny man, with a voice like the growl of a bear, and an arm like a sledge-hammer. How he ever come tew have sich a sweet, pretty girl as Jenny, passes me. She didn't look a mill like him, nor his wife, nuther. Folks said that site looked like Tom's grandmother, who was an edi cated lady, an' who ran away to marry his grand'thcr. Hut I never see her. She lived at Barberry Centre, an' died when Jenny was a baby. " Tom had five other children, all girls, and Jenny was an odd sheep in the flock, looking like n moss-rosebud among hollyhocks, or a violet underneath a hedge. . " They are all nice girls, enough, full of fun, an' bound tew have a good time ; but Jenny was the flower of the family. There couldn't nobody help loving her that knowed her. It was as nat'ral for her tew be gentle an' sweet an' ladylike as tew breathe. " An' she was iust as pretty as a pic tur, with big black eyes, an hair jest the same color, as soft an' shiny as silk. used tew like tew watch the color in her cheeks a coiuin' an' goin' now jest a delicate pink, an' the next minute as red as the heart of a June rose. " An' there was more than me that used tew love tew watch tl is. But I hain't come tew that yit. "Squire Tracy was the richest man in Barberry Green, an' Jived in the bigeest an' grandest house, an' he felt his oats, you may depend. Not that he was above speakin' tew common folks he allers spoke tew the poorest on'em but it whs in a grand, paternifin' sorter way that didn't exactly suit some people. A "The old squire wa'n't uone tew pleasant tew live with, nuthar, not if half the stories told 'bout him was true. He had a terrible temper, an' w9 as sot in his way as a mule. Everybody said if Mis' Tracy hadn't been one of the peaceablost creturs alive she never could have got along ivith him. But as 'twas, she didn't have no trouble, or, if she did. nobody heard on't. "TKayhad one son. Norman Tracy was liked by everybody in the village, great iii' small. He was so brave an' generous, an' had sich pleasant an' win nin' ways! Both the squire an' Mis' Tracy sot their life by him, though they had different ways of showin' it, an' 'twa'n't no wonder, nuther. " Mis' Tracy hadn't no girls of her own, an' she tuck a fancy tew Jenny when she was a leetle bit of a thing. Sho used tew often have I'er up tew her tiouse tew spend the day or arternoon, an' was allers takin' notice on her when ever they met, though she was so modest an' retinn' that it didn't seem to set her up none, as it wouldiost girls. "Jenny was allers handy with her noedie, an' tuck nat'rally to all kinds of fancy work; an' when she was growed up, Mis' Tracy used tew have her tew her house weeks to time se win' fur her. Sometimes she would go home nights and sometimes she wmldn't, jest as it happened. . " Arter a while Norman came home. He had been tew college. He had growed an' altered wonderful, but lie had the same handsome face an' merry, winnin' ways. "Norman was allers a great moth er's boy, an', as Jenny was sewin' fur Mis' Tracy all the time jest then, him an' her was nat'rally throwed a good deal tew g ether. " I had married an' settled down in a home of my own. But John an' me was ambitious tew git ahead. We hadn t paid fur our place, an' so I used tew dew odd jobs at the house fur Mis' Tracy, ironin' an' elear-starehin' her muslins. She was pertie'ler 'bout sich, an' allers said I suited her tew a T. So I was in an' out the house consider'ble. " Mis' Tracy used the room oponin' out ot her'n, an' which used tew be the nursery, fur a sewin'-room. Tew my mind twas the pleasantest one in the house; the winders was low, lookin' out -upon the garden, that was full of flowers an' shrubbery. "It was warm weather, an' the door was open intew the hall, an' I used tew often see Norman in there mornin's, either talkin', in his pleasant way, or readin' aloud tew his mother, out of some book of po'try. He had a beauti ful voice, an' I liked the sound of it, tho' I couldn't make no sense on't. "Jenny allers sot by the winder, sewin', an' I remember, as if 'twas only yesterday, how pretty she looked, the color a-comin' an' goii' in her cheeks, an' her downcast eyes shinin' through the long lashes. An' I remember how he looked at her. an' how eentle his voice was when lie spoke tew her. An' I minded that they used tew often be in the garden an' down by the river tew gether. "I've often wondered sence what his mother could bo thinkin' on. But she seemed tew think that Norman was the boy that lie was when they used tew play tewge'her, an' then Jenny was so still an' quiet, that she didn't have no suspicions as to what was comin'. ' " I was sorter oneasy myself some times, when I see how Norman con tinued tew be allers where Jenny was an' she seemed no ways averse to it fur 1 knowed that the squire would never consent tew his marryin' Tom Ire ne's darter, an' Mis' Tracy, fond as she was of Jenny, would never think her a fit wife fur him. "I don't know how it came out, but the squire seed or heard suthin' which roused his suspicions. I wa'n't there und I wa'n't sorry, nuther. Them that was. said that he ript an raved tit tew take the roof off. Tl e upshot on't was, that Norman went off tew furrin parts, an' Jenny was sent home mighty sud ding. "Sammy was only a few weeks old, then, an' kept me tew homepooty close, so I didn't see nothin' of Jenny 'cept tew meetin', an' then ter pale, sad lace went right tew my heart. But I thought it was from grievin' arter Norman, an' that arter a spell she'd get ovc" it, " ArUr a. while, some ugly stories got afloat. I was mad enough when they was fust told me, for I didn't believe one word on't. But I made up my mind that I'd see Jenny, an' have a talk with her. But morern a week passed, an' somehow I didn't git started ; suthin' or ruiher happened every day tew pre vent. " One cold, stormy cvenin in Decem berI sha'nt never forgit it the longest day I live I was sittin' alone by the fire, a-knittin' husband had gone down intew the milk-suller for suthin' when I heard a tap at the door. " I opened it, an' there stood Jenny, with nothin' round her but a thin shawl, an' her face as white as the snow at her feet. "'Fur the land's sake!' says I, as I pulled her in tew the fire, ' what brung you out such a night as thisP' " Twice she tried to speak, but her voice ended in a sob, l rubbin' her hands all the time, which were iist like ice. Then she said : " ' Polly, I haint nowhere to go, an' no friend but you! lather's turned me out of doors !" ."Then she fell tew the floor in a dead faint. "I hollered tew yer uncle, an' be twixt us both we got her ontew the bed in my bedroom. Then I built a rousin' fire, while he went fur the doctor. " Jennv was dretful sick all nicbt. an' will the next day. When the wust was over, she didn't seem tew rally. It almost seemed as if she was goin' tew die from pure weariness and disgust of liie. Arter tryin' everything elso I could think on, I put her baby in her arms as tine a boy as I ever laid eyes on. She kissed it, an' from that mo ment began tew git better. "Her folks didn't none on 'em come nigh her, an' husband an' me both said she could have a home with us as long as she was a mind tew stay. , . . "Sich a commotion as it made in Bar berry Green I never see yit! The folks in the village made all sorts of errands to come in, so's tew see ' Jenny Locke's child.' " A body would ha' thought that she'd sunk tew the floor with shame, tew meet all them pryin', curious eyes ; she Wiis allers sich a sensitive thing, color ing tew the ears if a man looked at her harder than common. But she didn't seem tew mind it one speck, but sot like a marble statoo, an' almost as white, holdin' her baby in her arms as if 'twas the most nat'ral thing in the world tew have it there. " Of course they was all cur'us tew know who's 'twas, though none on 'em durst ask her outright, she had sich a cold, proud way with her. But they didn't none on 'em get no satisfaction, with all their hints an' spyin'. Even tew me, Jenny never mentioned its father's name. "As soon as Jenny got strong enough she went to work sewin' ag'iu. She was so handy in makin' and nxin' over that she found plenty tew do. " Mis' Tracy took her son's absence very hard ; her health was verv poor, so I heerd. As fur the squire, folks said he was more ca'tankerous an' harder to get along with than ever. I didn't see neither on 'em tew speak tew. " Mis' Tracy never spoke to Jenny but once. It was the summer arter Norman went off. Jenny an' me sot on the porch sewin' when I see her comin' down the street. "She sorter hesitated when she reached the gate and then opened it and walked in. " I was settin' a little back of Jenny. I looked at her, but there was not a bit ot change in her face 'cept' that it might be a leetle paler than common. " Georgie, the baby, was playin' at her feet, the very pictur' of what Nor man was at the same age, as I heerd Mis' Tracy say arter ward. " Mis' Tracy looked at the child and then at its mother, layin' a roll of bills on Jenny's knee. "A proud, almost angry, look came into Jenny's eyes. She handed 'em back, say in': " ' 1 can't accept charity from you." "Miss Tracy made a motion tew go on, and then stopped, sayin': " If my son has wronged you, Jenny, it is not charity." " ' Your son Ins not wronged me, madame.' "Miss Tracy passed on, though I minded that she kept her eyes on the child so long as it was in sight. "Not long arterward Squire Tracy dropped down ir the street in a fit of apperplexv, and died afore mornin.' " Mis' Tracy had the body put in the tomb, telegraphin' fur Norman tew come home immejetly. " I sha'n't never forget the day he come. Jenny was at the winder when he rode by. She never said a word, but I took notice that her checks was as red as the June roses that was growin' out side. "Not more'n ten minutes arter, a neighbor rushes in, sayin' that he'd been throwed from the kerriage ontew a heap of stuns, an' taken up fur dead. "Snatchin' up her child, Jenny ran out inter the street, an' I follered. She made a straight bee-line fur the squire's, where a great crowd had collected up the steps, through the hall, up-slairs tew where the dyin man lay. " As she bent over him, he opened his 03, an' smiled as he saw her. "'Jenny my wife! my child! Mother, for my sake, be kind to them!' " These were the last words that Nor mtn Tracy ever spoke. " When Jenny saw he was gone, she gave a sharp cry an' fell tew tin floor. An' when they loosened her dress, tew try tew bring her tew. they found her marriage certificate, close to her heart, where she allers kept it. "The lather an son was buried on the same day, an' a sadder house an' funeral I never went tew, "Howsumever, Jenny was righted at last, an' them made ashamed who had looked down on her, an' who now re pented of their harsh judgment. " I needn't tell you that Jenny now Mrs. Noiman Tracy never left the house which she i:id the best of all rights tew be in. Old Mrs. Tracy never forgot her son's dyin' words. She was as kind to .Jenny as an own mother could be, and as for Georgie, her grand son, she fairly worshiped him, an" does tw this day. " The three live very happy together in the big house on the hill, anr from which nobody that's sick or in trouble is ever turned away uncouiforted or empty-handed. Mary Grace JIalpine. Color-Blindness Dr. B. Joy Jeffries, of Boston, Ameri ca's leading authority on color-blindness, has been examining the students of Yale college, to ascertain how many of tliem suffered from defective vision. Out of 325 students examined he found seven to be color-blind. " I find," re marked Dr. Jeffries to a Union reporter, "that one male in twenty is color-blind to a greater or lesser degree. You wouldn't think it affected some people to the extent it does. There we young people who cannot tell red fruit from green leaves. You may well imagine they've no business to go out picking strawberries or cherries. To some color blind people grass looks red, whileothers often run into red painted railings taking them for grass, and to them blood looks bottle-green in color. I know a case where a man had a blue uniform and waistcoat. He wanted a pair of trousers to match and so went out and bought a red pair! ' To another victim the color of cucumber and boiled lobster was the same. Molasses and blood have the same colors to many color-blind persons. I heard of a nrsn who never saw a red nose red to him always had a blue color. An English authority tells of a young man who picked up a red hot coal and wanted to know what that funny green thing was, Again, an artist who had become coJor-b'.ind painted a red tree in a picture! In another in stance a man could not distinguish by gaslight , tho variously colored bottles in a druggist's window. There is a case on record of a postoffice clerk whose cash account was always wrong. He might have got into serious trouble but thatjit was accidentlv discovered that he was color-blind and could not distinguish the red from the green stamps when making sales. Andl shouldn't wonder if many a letter that is sent to the Dead Letter office because it has on it a two cent stamp instead of a green three-cent one, would never have so miscarried but that a color-blind person unknowingly applied the wrong stamp." "And what .causes color-blindness, doctor P" inquired the reporter. " It ii a congenital defect, largely hereditary, although it may be from disease or injury. When congenital, it is incurable, but when it results from diseases oftho eye or brain, it may not become permanent. A jar or shock as in a railroad accident may cause a per son to become temporarily color-blind. The excessive use of alcohol and tobacco mav also cause it." " And what do you hope to accom plish by our investigations?" " My object at present is to bring be fore the community the dangers and prevalence of color-blindness the danger to life and property on land and sea, of this curious visual defect. Do you know that English railways pay two millions of dollars a year for killed and injured passengers?" When I get the fiublic aroused on this matter, I hope to lave such legislative action taken as will prevent the employment by public corporations of color-blind servants. Red and green signals at sea, and red signals by railroads many an accident is caused by color-blind employees mis taking these colors. I believe all em ployees should be tested on this matter. Already in Massachtxsettes the legislature has taken hold of tho question, so far as examining railroad employees is con cerned. Ihope other States will do the the same. Moreover, 1 think ray inves tigations will be of value to private cor porations, in that they will run no risk of employing color-blind help, and per haps I or some one else may yet discover some cure for this defect. I gain my livelihood by m practice as a physician, and pursue my color-blind investigations out of pure scientific interest." Dr. Jeff ries said that out of 11,735 men examined by him, he had found 486 color blind, and out of 10.605 women exam ined, only six were color-blind. The royal wedding in Spain, ushered in by a storm of rain and celebrated in the midst of a kingdom laid waste by flood and famine, has had anything but happy auspices; but it is singular to note how many royal matches during the past century have been similarly linked with misfortune. The marriage of the famous Austrian Empress Maria Theresa, was immediately followed by a Prussian invasion which drove her from her capital. The show of fire works at the wedding of her ill-fated daughter, Marie Antoinette, ended in a panic that caused the death of several thousand persons. Napoleon's wedding with Maria Louisa ol Austria was marked by the burning to death of Princess Pauline of Schwartzenbergand several other victims of less note. The Ilussian Grand Duke Nikolas, died shortly after his letrothal to Princess Dagmar. His sister's marriage to the Duke of Edinburgh was followed by the deatli oftho Czar's aunt, Elena Pavlona, and Kins Alfonso's first bride survived her wedding only a few months. There now live near Dahlonera, Cherokee county, Georgia, two children who have no such seemingly necessary things as veins. They are the step children of George Cayle, who married the Widow Montvals. The peculiarity was inherited not from their mother, but from their grandmother, who was also veinless. The slightest scratch causes a copious flow of blood. There were three of the children until a few weeks ago, when one of them bled to death from an abrasure of the skin. The surviving children are in perfect health. Ihis is a very tall story, but the Dahlo noga Mountain Signal swears to its truthfulness. The organ rolled its notes from the growling diupasou to the gentle flute; and the eongre gutiou aompauied by deep sepulchral ooughs lo coughs sourcely audible, because tticy Had not yet heard ol the wonderful IBoaef ot lr. Bull's Cough Syrup. FAUM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. I mA Kcelpes. Roast Turkey. Select your turkey with care; it should be young and ten der, and not too fat; too "large a fowl is not always the most desirable, choose a medium sized one. A dressing can be preoared in several ways ; some prefer a dressing made of bread, butter and oysters, moistened with the liquor from the oysters, but the true New England way is to make with chopped bread, a good jquantity ot salt fat pork moistened with milk and seasoned with sweet marjpram. A rich dressing can also be made with bread crumbs and butter, moistening slightly with water and seasoning with salt and pepper. The fowl should be well stuffed, tying tho neck tightly and sewing the body with a strong thread, so that they can be easily removed when the fowl is dished. In roasting have it thoroughly done, bake slowly at first, basting it with butter and water, and afterwards with the gravy from the dripping pan. Two hours is sufficient time unless the fowl should be large ; watch carefully, hav ing it a rich Drown when done. Very much depends on the gravy, which should be made in the dripping pan from the juices of the turkey, thickening with flour. Pumpkin Pie. One quart stewed pumpkin pressed through a sieve, nine eggs, white and yolks beaten separately, w o quarts milk, one teaspoonful mace, one of ginger,a little salt.one and one-half cup of sugar, one cup of good molasses, beat all well together and bake in crust without cover. Cheese Custard A breakfast cup ful of sliced cheese, the same quantity of milk, and two eggs; butter a pie dish, put in the cheese, pour the milk over, and then stir in the beaten-up eggs; bake for half an hour. If a smaller quantity is required, put a teacupful of cheese and milk and one egg. SncED Apples. Eight pounds of apples, pared and quartered ; four pounds of sugar, one quart of vinegar, one ounce of thick cinnamon, one-half ounce of cloves; boil the vinegar, sugar and spice together; put in the apples while boiling, and let them remain until tender (about twenty minutes); then put the apples in a jor; boil down the syrup until thick and pour over them. Sponge Cake. A. L. R., Cochran, Ind., sends the following: Five eggs, whites and yolks beaten separately; one goblet of flour, one goblet of fugar, and two teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Mrs. H. C. Klinel gives the following : Two cups of white sugar; two cups of sifted flour; one-half cup of water; four eggs beaten separately; two teaspoon fuls of baking powder; beat sugar and yolks oteggs together; thoroughly mix baking powder in flour, and add whites of eggs and flour last a little of each until all is used. Where It Pays to Grow Urapeg. It is a fact not generally known that the growth of a vineyard dependi more on the nature of the cli mate in spring and fall than during summer and winter. The vine thrives best in localities where the springs are not subject to frosts nor the autumns to excessively hot weather. Barton says that the cultivation of the vine succeeds only in climates wkere the annual mean temperature is between fifty and sixty degrees; or the mean temperature may be even as low as forty eight degr'es, provided the summer heat rises to sixty-eight degrees. In the old world these conditions exist as far north ns latitude fifty degiees; in the new world not beyond forty degrees. In both hemispheres the profitable cul ture of t he grape ceases within thirty de grees of tho equator, unless in elevated situations or on islands where the in tensity of the heat is moderated by the atmosphere of the sea. The first step to be taken in planting a grapevine is preparing a border for its roots. This must be perfectly dry, it not naturally so drained thoroughly that no stagnant moisture can exist in it. A loose under-soil is, in fact, requisite for all varieties of grape. Mr. Elliott, in the AmcricanWine and Grape Groiver. says that limestone clays, regarded as valuable for the grape by many, are not in his opinion to be prete'Ted. A certain requisite of lime may be needed, but it must 1m associated with iron, salts of soda and other stimulating am monical material to give healthy growth to the vino and perfection to Mie fruit. The authority quoted from further says that a light clayey, sandy loam, with an underlay of gravel, the surface being frequently supplied with bone meal, salt and gypsum, will, whenever the climate gives sufficient heat and length of sea son, be applicable to Edinburgh, Wol ter, Croton. Delaware, lona, Rebecca, Allen's Hybrid, Traminer and Lydia grapes. Tho same may be said to cover the Southern States, reaching into Cali fornia. All the named varieites as well as the Scuppernong succeed in soils with richness of surface and no underlaying stagnant waters. What has been said of these is also true of every class, but there are varieties, as the Concord, Ca tawba, Clinton, Salem, Wilder, Barry, Hartford, Diana, Cynthia, Ives, Martha and Lcnasqua, that will thrive in heavier, closer coils provided the border lor the roots be supplied with the ele mentn requisite to the nourishment of the vine and be also free from tho stag nant water at the base. The usual mode of preparing a border for vines in garden culture is to digout the natural soil to the required depth, about three feet, and length and width necessary. This is to be tilled up with a compost uniting requisite materials. A southern exposure u generally con sidered best; an eastern exposure is generally quite successful. New York World. 9 I claped her tiny hand in mine; I vowed to shield her from the wind, and from the world's cold storms. She set her beauteous eye on me, and with her little lips said i "An umbrllt will do h well." Coming Come. How dreary are the crowded streets With not a soul abroad! How sunless is the sunny sky! No Are on hearth, no mirth at board! How long the nights, how slow the day! My love's awav! My love's awBy! How gay the crowded city streets! How cheerily shines the nun! Dances the Are, and round the board From lip to lip the greetings run! No longer in the dumps I roam My love's come home! My love's come home! JVew York Tribune. ITEMS OF INTEREST. No slouch A high hat. Germany is now overrun with beg gars. Girls, Naomi was five hundred and eighty years old when she was married. The cook who undertakes to pluck a turkey must make a clean breast of it. IHcayune. A game of euchre between the seasons Spring passes, summer makes it next, autumn orders it up and winter runs the game out. No farmer will be mad when the cow kicks over the milk pan. It's when she kicks square against it and upsets it tkat he is riled. Mr. Soule of Illinois, has, it is claimed, 200,000 dozen frogs of all ages on an acre and a quarter of land, which he is breeding lor the Chicago and Cincinnati market. John Bright declares that if ho was teacher in a school he would make it " a very important part of his business" to impress every boy and girl with the duty of being kind to aiFanimals. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed, say tho wise men, but it seems to take about twenty-five or thirty years of the average man's life before he finds out what it was nature intended him for. Des Moines licgisttr. Professor Sheldon in his new work on dairy farming, assumes that 350,000, 000 gallons of milk are annualhimade into cheese in England and 500,)0,000 gallons to butter. The quantity of the former product made is 126,000 tons and of the latter 80,285 tons. The shrinking of the water in Tulare lake, Cal., has uncovered a prehistoric settlement, stone buildings, traces ol canals once bordered with planted trees, and other evidences of former occupa tion by an unknown race, are being clearly defined as the water subsides. The three greatest natural wondei s oi tho American continent perhaps w) may safely say the three grandest on earth are all comprised within the United States. They are the Yoseinitc valley, the region about the headwaters of the Yellowstone river, and Niagara Falls. "Many a handkerchief flirtation on the street has caused a runaway," says an exchange, and the Norristown Herald remarks that "the runaways are often brought to a sudden stop by an 'alter and a bridal." Scientists say that a man whose speci fic gravity is one hundred pounds on this globe would, if lie were transported to Jupiter, weigh twelve hundred pounds. Imagine the New York fat men's asso ciation holding a clam bake in Jupiter! They would bu'st the bottom out of the pla net. Xorrixtown Herald. In a sterile tract of country between Dar-es Salaam and Nysvasswa the ele phants attached to the Belgian elephant expedition marched uninterruptedly without food for forty-two hours and without water for thirty-live hours, each aJiinial carrying at the time bur dens weighing twelve hundred weight. U.VES OX A l'Ol'lXAR ARTICLE. Open aud shut, Open and shut, K'on trora the rise to the setting of the sun. Open und shut, Open and shut, And never a single bit ot tun. Open and shut, Open and (shut, With never loud suiilus ot joy or tears. Open and shut, Open and shut, Oh, tlii.s is the lile ol a pair ol shears. Local Advertising. The virtue of advertisim; is of more consequence, in a general way, than it is, often credited with. A too contracted view is so frequently thrown around its salutai y influence that those who read a business card seem to t"-.ink its import is of but little consequence to any ono be sides the advertiser. This, however, is a great mistake, for the community at large is benefited, according to our own way of thinking, by every business card of a town store appearing in tho local pipers. It needs no very skillful reasoning to elucidate the proposition, j for there can be no better method to im prove a villase, town or city than that wlmh keeps the bulk ol trade at home. By so doing the resul.s of industry arc widely diffused in the expenditures made, society becomes co operative to a considerable extent, material improve ments are encouraged and pride ol place is fostered. Our live storekeepers are beginning to understand the yaluo of advertising, and our residents fail not to regard them for their enterprise. A contemporary puts the matter in this wise: When t" e business men of a town f.iil to advertise extensively, they di minish the importance and tiade of a place, and permit more onteiprising localities to take tho latter from theni. Although done for their individual in terest, advertisers should be looked upon by citizens of the town where they re side as in some sense public benefactors, and they should be encouraged accord ingly. One merchant who advertises extensively is worth to his own town and people more than forty that never show themselves in paint, and should ho for this reason alone preferred, as suming that he is, .of course, h fair busi nes I man. Wobttrn ( Mans.) Jjurna'.
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